Best AMD RX 480 rawintensity Monero Testing

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I just wanted to keep some notes on what I am finding with Amazon.com: Gigabyte Radeon Rx 480 G1 Gaming 8GB GDDR5 Graphics Card (GV-RX480G1 GAMING-8GD): Computers & Accessories on Ubuntu 16.04 with kernel 4.10.1 on the Ryzen system. These are notes for myself on rawintensity settings of the AMD RX 480 mining monero with Wolf's miner.
Code: 
                                {
                                        "index": 0,
                                        "corefreq": 500,
                                        "memfreq": 1500,
                                        "fanspeed": 65,
                                        "powertune": 20,
                                        "threads": 2,
                                        "rawintensity": $rawintensitynum,
                                        "worksize": 16
                                }
Monero AMD RX 480 worksize 16 rawintensity results

rawintensity 640 = 515H/s
rawintensity 960 = 605H/s
rawintenisty 1000 = 616H/s
rawintensity 1010 = 617H/s
rawintensity 1019 = 619H/s
rawintenisty 1020 = 620H/s
rawintensity 1021 = 618H/s
rawintensity 1023 = 619H/s
rawintensity 1024 = 510H/s
rawintensity 1030 = 617H/s
rawintenisty 1040 = 609H/s
rawintensity 1080 = 590H/s
rawintensity 1320 = 475H/s

Here are worksize 8 rawintensity results:
Code: 
                               {
                                       "index": 0,
                                       "corefreq": 500,
                                       "memfreq": 1500,
                                       "fanspeed": 65,
                                       "powertune": 20,
                                       "threads": 2,
                                       "rawintensity": $rawintensitynum,
                                       "worksize": 8
                               }
rawintensity 900 = 607H/s
rawintensity 960 = 608H/s
rawintensity 992 = 624H/s
rawintensity 994 = 623H/s
rawintensity 996 = 624H/s
rawintensity 998 = 623H/s
rawintensity 999 = 624H/s
rawintensity 1000 = 624H/s
rawintensity 1001 = 610H/s
rawintensity 1005 = 610H/s
rawintenisty 1010 = 608H/s
rawintenisty 1020 = 608H/s
rawintenisty 1100 = 544H/s

Here are worksize 4 rawintensity results:
Code: 
                               {
                                       "index": 0,
                                       "corefreq": 500,
                                       "memfreq": 1500,
                                       "fanspeed": 65,
                                       "powertune": 20,
                                       "threads": 2,
                                       "rawintensity": $rawintensitynum,
                                       "worksize": 4
                               }
rawintensity 900 = 591H/s
rawintensity 960 = 607H/s
rawintensity 1000 = 620H/s
rawintensity 1001 = 613H/s
rawintensity 1005 = 610H/s
rawintenisty 1010 = 608H/s
rawintenisty 1020 = 608H/s
rawintenisty 1100 = 580H/s

Here are worksize 2 rawintensity results
Code: 
                               {
                                       "index": 0,
                                       "corefreq": 500,
                                       "memfreq": 1500,
                                       "fanspeed": 65,
                                       "powertune": 20,
                                       "threads": 2,
                                       "rawintensity": $rawintensitynum,
                                       "worksize": 2
                               }
rawintensity 900 = 521H/s
rawintensity 960 = 536H/s
rawintensity 1000 = 542H/s
rawintenisty 1010 = 544H/s
rawintenisty 1020 = 563H/s
rawintenisty 1100 = 432H/s

If you want to see RX 470 results they are here Best AMD RX 470 rawintensity Monero Testing

In summary, based on the above, worksize 8 and rawintensity 1000 seems to be the best.
 
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I have been using this for a week or so:

"threads": 1,
"rawintensity": 992,

With this results:
[13:13:38] Thread 1, GPU ID 1, GPU Type: Ellesmere: 575.47H/s
[13:13:41] Thread 0, GPU ID 0, GPU Type: Ellesmere: 552.34H/s
[13:13:41] Thread 1, GPU ID 1, GPU Type: Ellesmere: 575.51H/s
[13:13:44] Thread 0, GPU ID 0, GPU Type: Ellesmere: 566.70H/s
[13:13:45] Thread 1, GPU ID 1, GPU Type: Ellesmere: 575.46H/s
[13:13:48] Thread 0, GPU ID 0, GPU Type: Ellesmere: 566.55H/s



So I changed it to two threads and a raw intensity of 1020 and got this:

[13:19:30] Thread 0, GPU ID 0, GPU Type: Ellesmere: 33.23H/s
[13:19:30] Thread 1, GPU ID 0, GPU Type: Ellesmere: 35.16H/s
[13:19:41] Thread 2, GPU ID 1, GPU Type: Ellesmere: 31.40H/s
[13:19:41] Thread 3, GPU ID 1, GPU Type: Ellesmere: 14.24H/s
[13:20:29] Thread 0, GPU ID 0, GPU Type: Ellesmere: 35.06H/s
[13:20:29] Thread 1, GPU ID 0, GPU Type: Ellesmere: 35.33H/s
[13:20:43] Thread 2, GPU ID 1, GPU Type: Ellesmere: 32.74H/s
[13:20:43] Thread 3, GPU ID 1, GPU Type: Ellesmere: 32.74H/s

LOL, and with a completely non-responsive desktop for about %95 of the time running it, at first I thought it locked up my pc.

My two XFX RX 480's have 4 gigs of ram.
 
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Changed it to:
Threads 1
Raw intensity 1020

And its up a little.

[14:24:07] Thread 0, GPU ID 0, GPU Type: Ellesmere: 570.30H/s
[14:24:09] Thread 1, GPU ID 1, GPU Type: Ellesmere: 577.00H/s
[14:24:10] Thread 0, GPU ID 0, GPU Type: Ellesmere: 570.17H/s
[14:24:12] Thread 1, GPU ID 1, GPU Type: Ellesmere: 576.96H/s
[14:24:14] Thread 0, GPU ID 0, GPU Type: Ellesmere: 570.24H/s
[14:24:16] Thread 1, GPU ID 1, GPU Type: Ellesmere: 577.03H/s

Maybe its a 8gig vs 4 gig thing?
 
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Also "worksize" can make a difference.

These seem to be the best settings for my setup after playing around with threads raw intensity and worksize.

"threads": 1,
"rawintensity": 1024,
"worksize": 4


[14:58:16] Thread 0, GPU ID 0, GPU Type: Ellesmere: 572.44H/s
[14:58:17] Thread 1, GPU ID 1, GPU Type: Ellesmere: 581.33H/s
[14:58:17] Thread 0, GPU ID 0, GPU Type: Ellesmere: 572.71H/s
[14:58:19] Thread 1, GPU ID 1, GPU Type: Ellesmere: 581.98H/s
[14:58:19] Thread 0, GPU ID 0, GPU Type: Ellesmere: 572.76H/s
[14:58:21] Thread 1, GPU ID 1, GPU Type: Ellesmere: 581.25H/s
[14:58:21] Thread 0, GPU ID 0, GPU Type: Ellesmere: 572.33H/s
 
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Are you guys profitable with this on GPUs and paying for electricity or only a fun thing?

Wondering if I can use any of my GPU chassis to cover electric cost of other servers :D
 
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DrPeter said:
Interesting, thanks. Do you know how much power your card use with this settings?
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I know mining with the 7 1700 at stock speeds and the RX 480 it is 222-230w.

You could probably optimize a bit more since there is a SATA and NVMe (U.2 2.5") in the system. You could also go down to 1 DIMM. Still not bad at 1.1KH/s.

@T_Minus Monero is up a TON today $16.74 as I type this.

Here is the cryptocompare calculator with 0 for power costs on the setup:
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Now - being fair - if you are paying for power $16.7 XMR is basically break even at $0.35/kWh.

I use Monero mining simply to use excess data center power that I am paying for but not using. Under that assumption, the setup would almost pay for itself in a year with Monero at this level.

Monero is also very volatile. By the time I finished typing this it hit $17. I plan for around $12 XMR.
 
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That's awesome, and a great quick break down :) appreciate it.

I need to check what our new tiers and rates are now since they changed them AGAIN! I've been meaning to look into the discounts available and qualifications for a 'farm' since we don't have a solar car this may be another way to get low rates :)

Time to explore some options! Thanks
 
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I cannot manage to get more than 280 from ryzen 1700 under windows...did you made any custom compile or custom command ? thanks a lot!
 
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Here is what I figured for a cheap Silicon Valley rack:
Mining Calculator Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Dash and Monero

The issue is that it is using expensive XMR and does not include hardware:
$30 for 4GB RAM
$329 for Ryzen 7 1700 and cooler
$99 for ASUS motherboard
$20 for boot SSD
$110 for chassis and PSU
$200 for video card

$788 per node and you need 19 of those nodes. So really, assuming constant power/ rack costs it is 10 year payback :)

@DVD_GR using Linux which does much better. If you are using docker and xmrpool dot net pool here is the image I have been using: servethehome/monero_ryzen_xmrpool you can find instructions otherwise here Monero Mining on Linux made easy with Docker

Ryzen reports L3 cache differently. You want 8 threads. That docker image has the right thread count.
 
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I live surrounded by a levee thats surrounded by a swamp in Louisiana. Cheap electricity, lots of mosquitoes, crazy cajun women and great food.
 
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